DevOps & Infrastructure
October 12, 2026Let's Encrypt 64-day certs: your Azure renewal audit
Let's Encrypt will issue 64-day certificates by default from 10 February 2027, flips its staging environment on 14 October 2026, and drops to 45 days with seven-hour authorization reuse in 2028. On Azure that touches certbot on VMs, cert-manager on AKS and Key Vault pipelines feeding Front Door and Application Gateway, where fixed renewal schedules and absolute monitoring thresholds need to become relative.
Let's Encrypt
TLS Certificates
ACME
cert-manager
AKS
Azure Key Vault
Azure Front Door
Application Gateway
App Service
NIS2
By Falak Mahmood